First open thread of 2012, so perhaps some discussion of the highlights and lowlights of 2011 are in order?
Not exact matches
Back during Adoption School, when being a mom was just a theoretical concept (by the way, our agency was nothing like what's been described in this
thread — it told us the benefits of
open adoption to the child and said we would eventually form our own relationships with
first parents, which it then left us to do), I did not embrace OA because the highly - paid social workers said it was proving to be better for the child than shame and secrecy.
But
first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the
open comment
thread last week.
Tip: Initial
opening may be tight fitting at
first but will loosen after you lightly coat bottom
threads with vegetable oil using a paper towel.
«Phantom
Thread» (Focus Features) had a per - theater average of $ 54,000 in its
first weekend, but it
opened on Christmas Day, a Monday; had it debuted on a Friday, it likely would have exceeded an $ 80,000 average for the weekend.
It would have been enough to maintain the unique and compulsive Nemesis system — which dynamically generates long - term rivalries and story
threads with Orc bad guys based on emergent gameplay interactions such as deaths and kills — while tuning up and filling out the
first game's rather sparse
open - world.
Yet, at barely 9 x 8 inches, this simple cotton -
thread composition exemplifies the genius of the seventy - seven - year - old fiber artist, whose
first major career retrospective
opened at the ICA Philadelphia this past spring.
Today marked an historic occasion at the Venice Biennale: the
opening of the
first - ever Nigeria Pavilion, located in the Scoletta dei Battioro e dei Tiraoro, an early 18th century building that was once home to Venice's gold
thread and gold leaf guild.
The Golden
Thread Gallery presents two recent works by Common Culture,
Openings Are Always Awkward,
first shown at Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Portugal 2009 and the new multi — channel video installation I Dreamt I Was A Monkey — And They Made Me Wear Shoes.
Owners of the OnePlus 3T that are on the
Open Beta program are starting on a new
Open Beta
thread with its
first update being pushed concurrently.